Apparatus for breaking in tobacco pipes



Sept. 20, 1932. EyK. HAAs ET AL APPARATUS FOR BREKING IN TOBACCO PIPES Filed April 2. 1.951

f dwinff Ham Patented Sept. Ztl, i932 earliest.

Enti/'IN n. neas nun soenna s. Duerme, or :BAL'rIraonn MARYLAND APPARATUS FOR BREAKING 1N TOBACCOV FIPES Application area april a,

This invention relates to apparatus for breaking in tobacco pipes. rlhe object of the invention is to provide an automatic device which is simple and easy of operation and which will eectively break in a pipe so as to give it substantially the same treatment as it would receive' through relatively long use by a smoker.

Referring to the accompanying dra-wing, which is made a part hereof on whicli similar reference characters indicate similar parts,

Figure 1 is a view in elevation o'l' the apparatus, K Y

Figure 2, a vertical section ot the saine, and

Figure 3, a detail of a modiiied form.

In the drawing numeral 10 indicates a tank which is made air-tight and which has in its upper end a tube 11 to which a preferably liexible connection 12 mayL be attached, the other end of the connection being slipped over the end of a pipe 13 which/is to be treat- Y ed. The pipe may be supported in a suitable lbracket 14 secured upon the top oi the tank. In the lower part of the tank 1s positioned a tube 15 to which may be attached a water conduit 16 here shown as a flexible hose. Within the tank and bent in the form ot an inverted U is a tube 17 to the outer end 18 of which may be attached a flexible or other tube 19 for carrying otl1 water from the tank.

In operation the tube 16 is preferably attached to a water spigot or other source of water. As the tank 1() is lled the air inthe top of the tank passes out through the pipe stem into the atmosphere, this continues until the tank is lled to the neck of the tube as indicated at line 20. Then the water reaches this level it flows out through thetube, the

tube acting as a Siphon until the tank is emptied to the level indicated by the line 21. As the water flows out of the tank it creates a vacuum in the top of the tank which causes a suction through the pipe stem in the manner produced by a smoker. rlhe smoke is therefore drawn into the tank so long as the water is llowing out of the tank. As soon as the water reaches the level 21, the siphon is broken and the tank begins to fill again. Filling of the tank forces the` air and smoke 193i. sexier no, 527,230.

back out through the tube 12 andthe stem of the pipe. The operationl continues alternatelydrawing in'and forcing 'out the smoke through the-pipe. ThisV operation may ybe kept up until thepipe has kbeen broken in.

When once started they apparatus will work automatically without any attentiony on the part ofthe operator otherthansupplying the pipe with new tobacco when a pipe-full has been consumed. f p Y One feature of importance is that the tube extends well-down into the tank. The air f andk smoke drawn through the pipe therefore 65 11. is 'preferably U-shaped and its -lower end invention and therefore we do not limit ourselves-to'wh'at isshown in the drawing vand described 'in the specification, but only as indicated by the appended claims. y l-laving thus fully. described our' said `invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is :f y y An apparatus for breaking in tobacco es comprising atank having'an inlet for and a siphon outlet for th'epsame, a smoke inlet tube vadapted to be attached to a pipe to be broken in, said tube extending into andv well down inthe tank and having its i nner end positioned above the highest water let/cl in the tank, substantially as set forth.

said tank, the water flowing in through said Y inlet and out through said outlet tubes serving to create alternately a pressure and a' partial vacuum in the top of the tank and a flexible tube connected' at one end to the Y mouthpiece of thepipe, the other end of the Y stantiallyV as set forth.

tube communicating With the space in the tank above the highest portion of the Siphon, substantially as set forth. Y

3. An apparatus of the kind described comprising a sealed tank having an inlet and an outlet for Water, the outlet being in the form ofra tube having an open end and a bent portion extending upwardly in the tank to provide a siphon lfor emptying the tank,

`and a seco-nd tube extending into said tank having its inner end communicating Wit-h' the space above the Water level in the tank, sub- 4. Adevice for the purpose described comprising aclosed tank, an inlet for `delivering liquid into the tank and a Siphon for drawing it out ofthe tank, thel siphon being so arranged as to-emptythel taiikfaster than the inlet fills itto effect alternate filling and emptying of the tank, and a smoke tube eX- `tending into-r said tank, the inner end of' said tube being above the highWater-level in the tank, substantially as set forth.

, 1 5. A device for lthe purpose described cornp'rising a closed tank, Van inlet for delivering liquid into. the'tank and a siphon for draW- ing. it out ofthe tank, the Vsiplion beingso,

arranged as to empty the tank faster than the inlet fills it to effect alternate filling-andv emptying of the tank, and -a smoke tube eX- tending into said tank, the inner end of said' tube being above the" highk Water level inthe p tank, said air inlet comprising U-tube which has its open end above the Water level inthe tank and its bent portion extending down into thewater -inythe tank whereby Y smoke is'cooled asl itpasses through said tube to and. from the .airspace above the'water in the ftank kon the rise'fand fall of the' WaterV y inthe tank, substantially assetforth.

Avdevice for the purpose described corn-` piising a closed'tank, an inlet for delivering liquid intolthe tank and a Siphon for drawing it out of the tank, the siphonf being so arranged as to empty the tank faster than the inlet fills it to effect alternate filling and emptying of the tank, and a smoke tube eX- tending into said tank, the inner end of said tube being above thehigh Water level in A the tank,.said smoke'tube comprising a short tube secured inthe tank and having its inlet end communicating with the space above the Water in the tank, substantially as set forth. In Witness whereof, Wel have hereunto setY our hands at Baltimore, Maryland, this 30th dayof 'Mch., A. D. nineteen hundredv and thirty-one. 1 Y

A* i EDWIN K. HAAS-- ROBERT' s.- DURLING." 

